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1) Terraferma
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Set on and around a summer tourist island off the coast of Sicily, TERRAFERMA tells the story of two struggling, yet disparate families, whose members become fatefully intertwined. A well-intentioned, but illegal rescue of immigrant "boat people" forces the individuals of the indigenous family to choose between their economic survival and doing the morally right thing.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
What happened to Amalia? Who was with her the night she died? Her daughter Delia is saddened by the news, but not surprised. She considers her mother to be a disgrace even before she hears of the sordid circumstances of her death. Delia travels home to Naples for the funeral and tries to piece together her mother’s recent life. By doing so, she starts to confront her childhood memories that shaped their family history. Nominated for a Palme d'Or...
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2007]
Edition
Restored, digitally transferred version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (75 p.)
Language
Italiano
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
5) L'immensit�a
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
"Rome, 1970s. Clara is struggling to raise her three children under the crushing expectations surrounding marriage, gender and identity in the early 1970s. Her eldest child Andrew -- whom Clara calls Adri -- was born female but yearns for another life; an outsized, vibrantly-realized vision of a world where he can live as the boy he knows himself to be. Telling adults that he's an alien from another galaxy, Andrew often ventures through the reeds...
6) Mia madre
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.
7) The Wonders
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
It centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, who is struggling to find her footing in the world, and Rohrwacher conveys her adolescent sense of...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 368 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Tells the story of an Italian family from the end of the 1966-2000. It revolves around two brothers, Nicola and Matteo. In youth, they share the same dreams, hopes, readings, and friends, until one day they meet a girl, Giorgia, who diverts their destinies; Nicola decides to become a psychiatrist, while Matteo drops-out of university and becomes a policeman. It is an epic tale about the events and people that shape their lives.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma falls deeply in love with Antonio and begins a passionate...
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